I guess this belongs here rather than a Dingo thread:
This runs automatically on my desktop pc (which has no battery) in Dingo alpha 7, but not alpha 6. My quick read of this thread suggests that it shouldn't run for me. Is this correct?_________________If you have or know of a good gtkdialog application, please post a link here

This runs automatically on my desktop pc (which has no battery) in Dingo alpha 7, but not alpha 6. My quick read of this thread suggests that it shouldn't run for me. Is this correct?

Yes and no, it does run at boot, but should not show up in the tray. I didn't think there was any changes between alpha 6 and alpha 7 that would effect it. If you have some time to investigate, first try booting up with the "puppy pfix=ram" option so we can make sure it's not something in your pup_save file. If it still shows up in the tray then I need some more info:

1) Are you booting with any acpi=XXXXXX boot options?

2) Open a terminal and type:

lsmod

Post the output here. To copy from rxvt, highlight the text and then hold down the shift key and hit the delete key.

3) From the terminal type:

ls /proc/acpi/battery

and post the output, if any, here.

4) If ls /proc/acpi/battery gave you BAT0 and or BAT1, then from the terminal type:

Thanks for that. Looks like the the apm module is loaded. How old is your computer? Anyway, alpha7 changed to an older kernel. Maybe that kernel has a problem with the apm module or maybe this will be a common problem with apm computers.

Yes, that made it go away.
Computer is 7 years old, but actually has ACPI support anyway. I'm not sure why Puppy doesn't realise that._________________If you have or know of a good gtkdialog application, please post a link here

Hopefully we won't have to resort to that fix, since it just disables the battery monitor for apm. There may be a number of laptops around, that are over seven years old and would miss the battery monitor.

Barry was looking for 2.6.25 for Puppy 4 final, so maybe this is just a problem with with the apm module in 2.6.21.7. If not we could disable apm as I posted above or try to figure out when we're on a laptop if apm is loaded. I don't have a laptop that supports apm, so it's hard to test.

If one of the beta versions of Dingo gets a newer kernel would you mind giving more feedback?

The guy who originally wrote asapm made it refresh the display 100 times a second! Much more than we need.
I fixed it to something more reasonable, so it wakes up the cpu less._________________What's the ugliest part of your body?
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But I think it's your mindLast edited by Dougal on Sun 12 Apr 2009, 05:57; edited 1 time in total

I'm running Dingo on a Compaq Presario 1200, and I've tried all the configurations mentioned, and two different battery monitors. It appears that the monitors work fine, but the OS is just not recognizing my battery.

I'd send you the results of running lsmod, but the copy function you've discussed in rxvt doesn't work, either.

I'm having the same problem as Lanin. I have a Compaq Presario 1200. The battery monitor shows up but only shows that it's connected the AC even if it isn't connected. I tihnk that it doesn't recognize my battery. I've done the modprobe battery and mod probe AC and both come up with these error messages:

It looks like the Compaq Presario 1200 may only have apm. I googled it and it looks like it was made 1999-2000, I think acpi came out in 1999, so might not have it.. That's probably why the battery and ac modules won't load. Though Lanin says Windos is showing an acpi battery. You could try booting with acpi=force , just in case you do have acpi in there. You could also try one of the 4.1alphas. Puppy 4.1 has better hardware recognition.

Warning: On a laptop, when you start playing with acpi and apm, your cooling fan(s) might not work. So make sure your laptop is making all the normal noises.

Edit : Changed acpi=forced to acpi=force.Last edited by kirk on Wed 06 Aug 2008, 17:05; edited 1 time in total

I've done some looking on my own, and it appears that there is a general problem with the Compaq Presario 1200 and Linux. The machine was engineered to house Windows, and the BIOS doesn't play well with Linux in any form. Microsoft even had to issue a patch for XP before it would recognize the battery.

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